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Oct. 31: IDF in close quarters combat with Hamas as troops push further into Gaza
Two IDF soldiers killed * Troops overrun Jabaliya Hamas post, kill commander, 50 terrorists * Gallant: ‘significant’ gains, but ‘paying a heavy price’ * Houthis claim Eilat attacks
By Joshua Davidovich
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and ToI Staff 31 October 2023, 5:44 am Edit
- Staff Sgt. Lavi Lipshitz, 20, from Modiin (left) and Staff Sgt. Roei Wolf, 20, from Ramat Gan (right), who both served in the Givati Infantry Brigade’s reconnaissance unit and who were killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
- This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage shows Palestinians looking for survivors in a crater following a strike in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 31, 2023. The IDF said the airstrike was part of 'a wide-scale strike' on Hamas operatives and infrastructure belonging to the terror group’s Central Jabaliya Battalion. (Fadi Alwhidi/AFP)
- IDF troops operating in Gaza, in a photo released by the Israeli military on October 31, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson)
- This picture taken on October 31, 2023 from a position along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel shows a salvo of rockets being fired from inside the Gaza Strip towards Israel amid ongoing battles between Israeli forces and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
- Firefighters extinguish a car fire caused by a rocket impact in Ashdod, October 31, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)
- An IDF tank operating in Gaza, in a photo released by the Israeli military on October 31, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson)
- Israeli armored personnel carrier moves near the border with Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
- A trail of smoke, apparently from an Israeli air defense missile, is seen over the Eilat area in southern Israel, October 31, 2023. (Courtesy)
- Margalit Megidish, mother of IDF soldier Pvt. Ori Megidish who was rescued from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, speaks to press outside her home in Kiryat Gat, October 31, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- An Israeli fighter jet flies along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on October 31, 2023 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
- Egyptian tanks are deployed near Egypt's northern Rafah border crossing with Gaza on October 31, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)